The main goal of developing a smart energy management system is to help corporations, organizations, groups, and individuals use energy consumption data wisely in order to maintain and improve energy consumption. This ...

The advent and development of digital technologies has had a significant impact on the establishment of contracts. Smart contracts are designed as computer code containing instructions for executing user agreements, offering ...

In the 90's the lawyer and cryptographer Nick Szabo theorized about the possibility of computer protocols that could execute contractual clauses autonomously without the need for human intervention. He called it as smart ...

In the 90's the lawyer and cryptographer Nick Szabo theorized about the possibility of computer protocols that could execute contractual clauses autonomously without the need for human intervention. He called it as smart ...

Este estudo pretende identificar quais foram os temas mais e menos estudados no que diz respeito ao contexto das Cidades Inteligentes (Smart Cities). Busca, também, apresentar uma possível agenda de pesquisa que contribua ...

The scientific career of Vicente Lopes Jr at UNESP—Ilha Solteira—spanned three decades in which he worked on new applications of smart structures in structural health monitoring and active vibration control. Prof. Lopes ...

Autonomous Vehicles are being introduced to our society on a daily basis, the whole concept of IoT has an ever growing presence, by combining the two concepts into one “Quasi-Smart City” control and communication scheme, ...

Making a city “smart” is emerging as a strategy to mitigate the problems generated by rapid urbanization. (Chourabi et al, 2012) In response to the increasing use of the concept, this paper explores different strategies and ...